Got it. Thanks Michel.
charlie
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From: Michel Dumontier [michel.dumontier@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:26 PM
To: Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C]; HCLS
Cc: Eric Prud'hommeaux
Subject: Re: SBIR proposal: Prototype mediation service for Open-Source, Universal Healthcare Exchange Language: Pilot connecting VistA and OSCAR
Charlie,
the public mailing list for the HCLS is - public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org<mailto:public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
the public calendar for the HCLS is the google calendar; if you login to the google calendar with w3c.hcls / hclshcls, you can click on your next date, add the agenda info to the box, save and send notice to participants.
m.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C] <meadch@mail.nih.gov<mailto:meadch@mail.nih.gov>> wrote:
SHould I send out a meeting annoucement for next TUesday's meeting to: w3c.hcls@gmail.com<mailto:w3c.hcls@gmail.com><mailto:w3c.hcls@gmail.com<mailto:w3c.hcls@gmail.com>>?
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From: Michel Dumontier [michel.dumontier@gmail.com<mailto:michel.dumontier@gmail.com>]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:40 AM
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Subject: Fwd: SBIR proposal: Prototype mediation service for Open-Source, Universal Healthcare Exchange Language: Pilot connecting VistA and OSCAR
Charlie / Eric
here's a conversation i'm having that needs to happen on Tuesday as well.
m.
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From: Rafael Richards <rmrich5@gmail.com<mailto:rmrich5@gmail.com><mailto:rmrich5@gmail.com<mailto:rmrich5@gmail.com>>>
Date: Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: SBIR proposal: Prototype mediation service for Open-Source, Universal Healthcare Exchange Language: Pilot connecting VistA and OSCAR
To: Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@gmail.com<mailto:michel.dumontier@gmail.com><mailto:michel.dumontier@gmail.com<mailto:michel.dumontier@gmail.com>>>
Michel,
I would be delighted to discuss at next Tuesday's HCLS forum.
The grant is looking for a live, active mediation service that could broker patient data from any EHR, recognize what language the data is in (VistA-ese, OSCAR-ese, etc.), and pass it to a polling recipient system. Ideally this will be a pull mechanism that allows one EHR to ask for specific data elements of a specific patient in another EHR, and obtain this without human intervention. How would we design such a system?
As the deadline for this SBIR proposal is at the end of the month, it leaves little time to apply. Is there any small company within the HCLS community that would be a vehicle to apply for this grant, and engage the HCLS community in helping solve this very basic issue?
Rafael
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@gmail.com<mailto:michel.dumontier@gmail.com><mailto:michel.dumontier@gmail.com<mailto:michel.dumontier@gmail.com>>> wrote:
Hi Rafael,
Well this is really cool :)
As you may be aware, Eric, Charlie and I are working on providing feedback to HL7 and their FHIR initiative, which includes an RDF representation of the patient record. Given that we have already done work [1] to integrate (synthetic, indivo-based) patient records with linked open data, there would be a prototype to follow, but this, i imagine, is significantly larger and has more potential impact. Would you care to discuss at next Tuesday's HCLS Health Care forum?
m.
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21624155
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Rafael Richards <rmrich5@gmail.com<mailto:rmrich5@gmail.com><mailto:rmrich5@gmail.com<mailto:rmrich5@gmail.com>>> wrote:
Michel,
The PCAST recommendation for a "Universal exchange language" , and need for mediation services between RDF sources might make a nice topic on HCLSIG.
Any thoughts on projecting OSCAR's relational tables to RDF? Mediation methods between EHR endpoints?
Please forward to the OSCAR development team and anyone in the HCLSIG community interested.
There is funding available for this (see SBIR below).
Rafael
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NOTES
>From the press releases below, it looks like VA and DoD are looking hard at 3M Health Data Dictionary as their semantic interoperability mediation. The SBIR proposal states:
"Through their Health Data Dictionary (HDD) product, 3M has also supported some degree of semantic interoperability, using a knowledge representation scheme linked to a unique concept identifier, but it is not a true first-order predicate logic ontology".
=> How does lack "true first-order predicate logic ontology" affect the HDD performance?
=> Woud an RDF mediation service have "true first-order predicate logic"?
=> Why would an RDF store and mediation offer better functionality than the 3M HDD API?
These are a few of the question we would need to answer in the SBIR.
As a pilot why don't we also consider another open-source, community supported EHR that is well connected to the SemWeb community? (OSCAR).
Thoughts on piloting an VistA -OSCAR - SMART RDF mediation service?
Rafael
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Details on 3M HDD
Press release on VA-DoD use of 3M HDD for interoperability:
http://news.3m.com/press-release/company/3m-opens-access-3m-healthcare-data-dictionary-under-agreement-us-departments-d
Timeline for incorporation of VA/DoD dictionaries into 3M HDD
http://www.hddaccess.com/timeline/
YouTube explanation of 3M HDD:
http://youtu.be/T_Qc93efnzI
HDD Overview:
http://www.hddaccess.com/intro/overview/
HDD Demo:
http://search.hddaccess.com/http://search.hddaccess.com/demo
This is the ideal opportunity for us get some traction for RDF as the PCAST report's "Universal Exchange Language".
The SBIR grant is below, and link here:
http://www.dodsbir.net/sitis/display_topic.asp?Bookmark=42567
Proposals are due at the end of June.
This is a Three-stage SBIR, so potentially large sums will be heading the RDF way if we can get this started.
Rafael
Proposals Accepted:
Program: SBIR
Topic Number: DHP12-004 (DHP)
Title: Prototype, Open-Source, Universal Healthcare Exchange Language
Research & Technical Areas: Biomedical
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Acquisition Program: Office of the Principal Assistant for Acquisition â€“ USAMRMC
Objective: Prototype architecture to execute an open source, universal health exchange language, as described in a recent Presidentâ€™s Council Of Advisors On Science And Technology (PCAST) Report.
Description: Most DOD, VHA, and civilian healthcare systems encounter significant challenges in exchanging health information due to the lack of a universal health exchange language. Without effective health information exchange, continuity of patient care is less than optimal, healthcare access and availability are hampered, and healthcare costs increase. This topic is of particular importance to DOD, which is a provider and payer of care for 9.6M beneficiaries. Two thirds of military healthcare is delivered in the civilian sector. As a matter of background, the PCAST Report On â€œRealizing The Full Potential Of Health Information Technology To Improve Healthcare For Americans: The Path Forwardâ€